A new speaker of the House, finally

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

After a three-week vacancy, House Republicans elected Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana speaker. We’ll give you the rundown on who Johnson is and what his far-right associations could mean for the challenging weeks ahead in Congress. And, on the other side of the Capitol rotunda, senators are working on new ways to end Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s military promotion blockade. Plus, a 14-year-old scientist’s cancer-fighting bar of soap.

Here’s everything we talked about:

- “5 things to know about Speaker Mike Johnson” from The Hill

- “McCarthy’s fundraising guru will back newly anointed Speaker Mike Johnson” from Politico

- “Mike Johnson is the least experienced House speaker in 140 years” from Axios

- “Virginia teen named top young scientist for cancer-fighting soap” from The Washington Post

- “Senators prep proposal to go around Tuberville’s holds” from Politico

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0:40.8	All right, let's go. You ready?
0:42.8	Yeah, already.
0:43.8	All right, let's go.
0:45.8	Let's go.
0:48.8	Hello, everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart,
0:54.8	where we make today make sense.
0:56.8	I'm Kai Rosal. Thanks for being here on this Wednesday.
0:59.8	It is October the 25th.
1:02.8	Yes, it is. And today we are just going to do some news and a smile, maybe two, who knows,
1:08.8	if I can get Kai to smile with my smile that I will submit.
1:12.8	We will have a great day and move on.
1:15.8	Let's get into it because I mean, oh my gosh, they got it done.
1:20.8	They got it done.
1:21.8	Look at Republicans getting it done after weeks and ridiculousness.
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